{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charter-trustees-order-1974/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charter-trustees-order-1974/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Charter Trustees Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charter-trustees-order-1974",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meetings of charter trustees",
  "text": "(1) Charter trustees for any city or town shall in every year hold an annual meeting. The annual meeting in 1974 shall be held before 1st May 1974. The annual meeting for any subsequent year shall be held within the 21 days following the annual meeting of the district council. The annual meeting in 1974 shall be convened by the proper officer of the district council.\n(2) The election of a city or town mayor and a deputy city or town mayor shall be the first business transacted at the annual meeting of the charter trustees for any city or town.\n(3) Until the completion of the election of a city or town mayor at the annual meeting in 1974, the chairman of the district council or a person designated by him shall preside over the first meeting but if the chairman or such person is not a charter trustee of the city or town he shall not vote in the first instance at the election.\n(4) Other meetings of charter trustees may be held as they may determine.\n(5) Charter trustees shall be bodies to which the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 applies.\n(6) Paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to the Act shall apply in relation to meetings of charter trustees as it applies in relation to meetings of parish councils.\n(7) No business shall be transacted at a meeting of charter trustees unless at least one-third of the whole number of trustees are present at the meeting: but in no case shall the quorum be less than two.\n(8) At a meeting of charter trustees the city or town mayor, if present, shall preside.\n(9) If the city or town mayor is absent from a meeting of charter trustees the deputy city or town mayor, if present, shall preside.\n(10) If both the city or town mayor and deputy city or town mayor are absent from a meeting of charter trustees, such trustee as the trustees present shall choose shall preside.\n(11) Paragraphs 39 to 44 of Schedule 12 to the Act shall apply to charter trustees as they apply to parish councils.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/176/article/5",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}